Law for business

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Includes index.

Law, legal reasoning, and the legal profession -- Dispute settlement -- Business ethics and corporate social responsibility -- Business and the constitution -- Crimes -- Intentional torts -- Negligence and strict liability -- Licensing and intellectual property -- The nature and origins of contracts -- Creating a contract : offers -- Creating a contract : acceptances -- Consideration -- Capacity to contract -- Voluntary consent -- Illegality -- The form and meaning of contracts -- Third parties : contract rights -- Performance and remedies -- Formation and terms of sales contracts -- Warranties and product liability -- Performance of sales contracts -- Remedies for breach of sales contracts -- The agency relationship : creation, duties, and termination -- Liability of principals and agents to third parties -- Employment laws -- Which form of business organization? -- Partnerships -- Formation and termination of corporations -- Management of the corporate business -- Financing the corporation and the role of the shareholders -- Securities regulation -- Legal liability of accountants -- Personal property and bailments -- Real property -- Landlord and tenant -- Estates and trusts -- …